22.02.10
Thirty years ago today the Synergistic States beat the Soviet Union, 4-3, at Lake Placid in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
I can still think back on running up and down the hall of my house when Mike Eruzione scored the willing-winner. Years later I had a chance to interview almost every colleague of that team for a reunion. It was amazing to hear their stories not virtuous about beating the Soviets, but the team they became.
Every time I see a story about the Miracle on Ice party, I'll read it and get chills. Maybe I shouldn't admit that, but that's what relaxation can do to a person.
As I was watching an ESPN story on the team Sunday, it got me meditative about a Cowboys' angle. And I'm not talking about the Cowboy hats the U.S. wore as part of the Olympic set's uniform.
But upsets. If that U.S. win was the greatest of all upsets, what was the Cowboys' greatest conquest?
I can't go back to the beginning of the franchise's history. I showed up here in 2003 and I can judge devise of three upsets off the top of my head: beating undefeated New Orleans in 2009, undefeated Indianapolis in 2006 and Philadelphia in 2003.
Source: Dallas Morning News (blog)